Egyptian Dreams

Anthony Appleyard · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 9:31 pm Post subject: Did the Nile ever dry up?

One of the threads in this forum is called "10,000 - 7000 BC" :: 10,000 BC would be well back in the last Ice Age, when the world in general was drier as well as colder. I read somewhere that this may have led to East Africa getting so dry so widely that the Nile in Egypt dried up at times in the Ice Age. What does archaeological / geological evidence say here?

Lutz · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 6:49 am Post subject:

" Klimaforschung : Eisberge machen den Nil zu einem kleinen Rinnsal " (Welt.de - Rolf H. Latusseck, 30.06.2008)

Anthony Appleyard · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:02 pm Post subject:

If even Lake Tana and Lake Victoria dried out, that drought must indeed have been severe; and any water that got past would likely have evaporated out in the Sudd in south Sudan.

Ethan59 · Citizen Joined: 21 Feb 2022 Posts: 1

It doesn't seem plausible, given that it is the primary drainage basin for a huge portion of North East Africa. Whatever rain falls there will eventually end up in the Nile. There are several concerns that will arise in the near future. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which supplies the Nile in Egypt, is being built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile. This will be used to create hydroelectricity. It will be Africa's biggest dam, producing 6,000 megawatts for internal and export usage.

The primary issue is the amount of time it takes to fill it, because they fill it with water that would otherwise flow down to Egypt. If they fill it in three years, Egypt may face water scarcity at that time.Egypt favors a ten-year filling period. Egypt utilizes its own large dam at Aswan to store water during times of excess and then use it during times of scarcity.

We can now do a lot to assist ease this type of scenario with desalination because it is now technologically viable and much less expensive, and Egypt has a large population in coastal areas near to the sea.